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Survey by Virgin Mobile in Australia found that one in three mobile phone owners will snoop in phones of their partners60% of them will del it when the partner is in shower. 41% del it with partner in view45% of the snoops reported finding flirtateous or evenexplicit sexual messages by their partner, with someone else
KDDI network now offers Ez My Styling, a service that lets any users send in their pictures, select a hairstyle, and the user's photel is adjusted sel you have the hairstyle you selected. Users can compare hairstyles and find the one they want. Then - of course - the network offers the nearest hairdressers whel can del that haircut.. Clever..
The UK Sleep Council reports that 25% of British couples sleep apart some times or always, because the couple are incompatible for communication technology in bed, such as phones, Blackberries etc
Twitter first was just a microblog site. Then it was called an affinity or celebrity blogNow Twitter is finding a particular breaking news media-related nicheCNN quoted Twitter as first source when breaking story of Turkish Airlines Crash in the NetherlandsSky News has appointed journalist tel monitor Twitter
Source: Wall Street Journal 9 March 2009
Twitter update
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no more alarm clock..UK newspaper Birmingham Post reports a study that 71% of British citizens feel the alarm clock is obsolete. The most common use of wake up is now the alarm on the mobile phone
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
Maxim readers tel send and receive pix of girls from MMS phones. Also download screensavers of Maxim cover girls. Readers can enter a Bar Shots competition, where readers send in MMS photos of beautiful girls seen in bars, for a chance tel £1,000. Source: Tomi T Ahonen book Mobile Pearls Vol 2: Mobile Social Networking, 2009
Prefer mobile phone over wallet?Unisys survey: it takes an average of 26 hours for a user to (notice and) report a lost walletyet if you lose a mobile phone, the average time to report it is 68 minutesSource: book Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media , Tomi T Ahonen 2008
Orange in UK in partnership with the movie theatre chain UCG offers Orange Wednesdays, any Orange customer can bring in a friend for free on WednesdaysSource: UCG Cinemas July 2004
Multiuser - Take Friend to Movies
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
CNN iReport - 240,000 clipsCNN launched iReport citizen journalism 2 years ago. By the March 2009 it had received over 240,000 submitted iReport video clips and images from over 180 countries. CNN aired 1,300 iReport clips and images during Feb 2009Source: CNN March 1, 2009
AMF Ventures has measured the accuracy of mediaOn TV accuracy is 1% of total customer dataOn the internet accuracy is about ten times better, with about 10% of customer data currently capturedBut on mobile it is nearly 10 times more accurate once again, with 90% of customer behaviour that can be accurately captured
Source: AMF Ventures May 007
Customer Data Accuracy
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A TV quiz show on Asahi TV on "losers eliminated" principle, using mobile-phone created avatars and interactivity, called Hoshi-Ichi Maniac ("Number One Star Maniac"). The quiz format was multiple-choice47,000 viewers competed generated 163,000 responses.
Source: Artificial Life July 2008
Hoshi-Ishi Maniac
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The Barack Obama campaign of 2007-2008 was the one using mobile phones most intensely in any US election and contributed to his winAlso: At the first meeting of local campaign offices, volunteers told to invite friendsiPhone app showed latest poll at each phone number for friends
Source: Communities Dominate blog 2008
The Obama M-Campaign
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Primary Business ModelsMobile social networking has six business models1 - Pay (Subscriptions, Per-Use, or mixture)2 - Advertising3 - Personalization4 - Revenue share with user-generated content5 - Gifting6 - Ego-services
Source: eBook Tomi Ahonen Pearls Vol 2: Mobile Social Networking 2009
Most popular game in Austria is called Killer Bees, a Game2One WAP service on the A1 networkrun by Xidris, a WASP
You have a bee hive. You have 2 types of bees, worker bees and killer bees. You build your hive & you attack other players' hives
If your hive is attacked by someone, you get an SMS message that tells of the attack (and tells you what options you have tel react)Of game has course national leader board
Source: www.xidris.com and www.a1-net.at
WAP Game - Killer Bees
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Mixi is to Japan what MySpace is in the USA, the primary social networking site. Mixi has 10 million users in JapanMixi has a mobile version, available as official sites on both NTT DoCoMo and KDDI networks, and as an unofficial site on Softbank (ex Vodafone KK)Generates most of its revenue from advertising
Mixi Mobile generated about 35% of Mixi's total traffic
Source: MobikYo Japan Mobile Internet Report Sept 2007
Mixi Mobile Japan
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Sulake founded in 1999, owner of Habbo Hotel, Registered users 135 M, 90% teenagers, 31 countriesSulake earned 50 M Euro out of Habbo in 2008and 4.8 M Euros of profit for the yearOnly 10% is advertising/sponsorship; rest paid by kidsHabbo Hotel keeps very actively renewing itself, with a new Habbo environment release every 6-8 weeksNow offer unique items (eg furniture) made available only once
Sources: Sulake/Habbo Hotel April 2009
Habbo Hotel Update 2009
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Mobile One M1 in Singapore has launched MeTV as mobile video sharing serviceGimmick is that for every video that is viewed the original creator gets a revenue-share Copycats include SeeMeTV on Three networks and LookAtMe on O2
Sources: MobileOne, Three and O2
MeTV Pays Revenue-Share
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CyWorld - 50% South KoreaSouth Korean CyWorld used by 95% of 20 year oldsThe web and mobile based virtual room, blogsite, mobile blogging, music and community site has 23 M 50% of the Korean population as usersGifts of virtual properties
30,000 businesses active in CyWorld, offer 500,000 items of content for sale. 40% revenue-share
Source: book "Digital Korea " by Ahonen & O'Reilly 2007
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UK flirting service Flirtomatic now 2M users US, GermanySold virtual boob jobsSold 3.5M virtual roses in 2007 at 23 pence eachNewest concept: "ego services". If you don't like your rating (5 stars etc), eliminate worst rating but payStopped subscription in April 2007 as unnecessary
Source: Tomi Ahonen Pearls Vol 2: Mobile Social Networking, 2009
Flirtomatic 2009
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
Primary Business ModelsMobile social networking has six business models1 - Pay (Subscriptions, Per-Use, or mixture)2 - Advertising3 - Personalization4 - Revenue share with user-generated content5 - Gifting6 - Ego-services
Source: eBook Tomi Ahonen Pearls Vol 2: Mobile Social Networking 2009
Forum Oxford reports that by Feb 2008 in the UK, SeeMeTV and rivals had 32M paid video downloads, paying over £800,000 ($1.6M) to content creators, for 60,000 clips submitted (average creator earned £13.33 per clip )
Source: Forum Oxford, Feb 19, 2008
SeeMeTV Economics
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
Pearls: Real Mobile Servicescollected by Tomi T Ahonen
The Love Detector from South Korea!KTF launched a service that measures voice patterns and gives an on-screen measure of how much affection (and how honestly) the person is talkingAlso summary data provided after a discussion via SMS
Fanta bluetooth tennis game between mobile phonesPretty clever. Except that it makes bouncing ball noises, that are at such a high pitch, that only young people can hear them. These are called "mosquito noises". Some kids use sound as the ringing tone
Source: MobHappy 2 Dec 2008
Game with "mosquito Noises"..
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Martín’s bioEstudió en el Colegio Nacional de Bs. As.y se graduó en Conway High School, USA.Lic. En Administración (UBA) y egresado de la Escuela de Negocios IAE – Business SchoolFormación en escuelas y empresas de Francia (Universidad de la Sorbonne), Suiza (Vins des Chevaliers) y USA (FMC Corporation)Socio Fundador (1985) y Director General de MERITI (Google Apps Reseller)Especialista en Telecomunicaciones e Internet Mentor y Consultor de Endeavor y de NAVES (Incubadora de nuevas empresas) - IAE – Business SchoolCreador del Seminario Soluciones Móviles (5 ediciones) y de ForoMovil, 1er foro hispano focalizado en la movilidad en los negocios del S.XXISocio del Club del PetróleoArtículos publicados en La Nación:
El nuevo nomadismoLa movilidad en los negocios del Siglo XXI
Desarrolló alianzas estrategicas con Lotus, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft y Google Enterprise (actual)Ha dictado conferencias en eventos nacionales e internacionales invitado por IBM, Microsoft, Telefónica de Argentina, Telecom Personal, Movistar, AT&T, Telmex, Google Enterprise, entre otros
We have had fun with MartínMobile is the seventh mass mediathere are 7 unique benefits to mobile we have six ways to make money on mobileand we need to make services fun